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smoke cigarettes and you learn to say. “Raw! Raw! Raw. Hypotyposis Bah!”
 Touts of the financier teach you that. You smoke so many cigarettes that you lose control of your mental machinery and then you bray like donkeys.
 Coming here yesterday I passed through Ann Arbor. There were a lot of students at the station. Many of them were there to bid good-bye to friends. About ten of them stood in a row and each one smoked a cigarette. I thought, “Good Undertakers! Is there nobody in this college who doesn’t smoke cigarettes?”
 That is just what the financier wants those kids to do—weaken themselves with dope. He can make better Jumping Jacks out of them when they are dopey.
 History states that China used to be the most powerful nation on earth.
 What happened to it?
 Greedy financiers in those days wanted to skin the Chinese people, and so they fed them dope; first, little cigarettes with only two per cent dope in them. But as their victims got more and more “nervous” and called for more and more dope the people as a whole grew weaker and weaker as a nation until the little Japs with one-tenth of their numbers take their properties from them, rich and poor alike.
 Now, the financiers of America encourage cigarette smoking through the sale of them to the people. They put on huge sign boards, pictures of handsome athletes with muscles, as big as mine. They stick poisonous cigarettes in their faces.
 No man with muscles like mine would smoke cigarettes. But they fool children and make weak boys think they can become strong athletes by smoking dope.
 They also paint beautiful women on sign boards. You can’t mnake a woman look as beautiful with paint as she is without it. The little girls don’t know that end as they see a painted woman smoking a cigarette they think. “I would like to be as beautiful as that.” so they start to paint and smoke cigarettes.
 That is the way the American people acquire the dope habit.
 There was held in France recently a convention of Dope Experts from all parts of the world. The statistics published afterwards were: China, first; America, second in dope smoking.
 Can you beat that? America. second in dope smoking among all iations of the world. Great record, isn’t it? We ought to be proud of that, hadn’t we? Yes, some day America may lead the world as a dope smoking nation.
 If the American people go down hill as dope smokers much farther they will follow history and do as Chine did, thus making it pos- sible for the Japs, reinforced by a new mixed race to come over and take the U.S.A. from you. To cray like donkeys won't stop it.”
 If I had children I wouldn’t let one of them go to high school where young girls and boys are graduated as cigarette smokers, cocktail drinkers and dance hall artists.

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